PERMANENT PANELS, TECHNICAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00535R000100030002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 21, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Plans.
Deputy Director for Support.
Office Directors,. Directorate of Science
and Technology
SUBJECT . .Permanent Panels, Technical Coordinating
Committee
1. This supplements my memorandum of the same subject
dated 26 May by establishing nine additional Panels of the
Technical Coordinating Committee. Under the guidance of the
Technical Coordinating Committee, the Panels will maintain a
continuous overview of the area assigned to them and will be'
prepared at any time to produce for the Committee and the R&D
Board, a comprehensive status report of their area of
responsibility, including:
A.
B.
A statement of long-range technical objectives.
An inventory and assessment of current capa-
bility within the Agency.
C. An
inventory of on-going and programmed R, D & E
ro
rams
p
g
.
D. An evaluation of the adequacy of these programs
to
i
lud
(1)
nc
e:
Existing technologic opportunities which
should be but are not currently funded. or
programmed.
(2) Limiting technologic gaps for which no
solution is currently foreseen.
(3)
Identification
and explanation of desirable
redundancies
which may exist in the program.
(4)
Identification
of programs which are
unnecessarily
duplicative.
(5)
Identification
of policy, political or
internal organizational problems, which
limit the effectiveness of the program.
E. Recommended actions and programs.
2. 1 would like the first report from each of these
Panels submitted to the Chairman of the TCC by 28 July 1972.
Thereafter the Panels should maintain an updated copy of
their status report in the office of the Technical
Coordinating Committee chairman.
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3. I will look forward to the cooperation and support
of your operating elements as these panels seek their help in
defining our capabil'
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Carl E. Du k tt
Deputy Di or
for
Science and Technology
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